al-jazeera. every your. victory is not winning for our party. victory is winning for our country. president donald trump calls for unity across party lines as he outlines his priorities in the state of the union address. hello and welcome on pizza watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up it's a date the u.s.

and north korean leaders will meet again as part of a push to get to give up its nuclear weapons program. as the tug of war continues in venezuela health workers are pleading for the government aid. also ahead residents of this trillion city worst affected by days of flooding start to return home. top story the u.s. president has called for unity in his state of the union address to a divided congress donald trump outlining his political priorities but providing few details of his speech which was postponed last month because of the government shutdown touched on several topics including the economy foreign policy immigration and the controversial border war with mexico mike hanna explains from washington that the state. that the president of the united states.

might just change in the strangers' since president trump last spoke here sitting next to the vice president a new speaker nancy pelosi has been locked in a power struggle with the president since the democratic party took over the house and acknowledging this the president called for political. together we can break decades of political stalemate. we can bridge all divisions heal old wounds build new coalitions but on the issue that led to the partial shutdown no sign of any compromise the president adamant that his demand for a barrier remains unchanged congress has ten days left to pass a bill that will fund our government protect our homeland and secure our very dangerous southern border if you can understand your pain calling on victims of crime by what he called an illegal alien to back his argument. simply

put walls work and walls save lives so let's work together compromise and reach a deal that will truly make america safe. a standing ovation from the republican side while democrats wearing white in honor of women's rights stayed in this seats it is time to give our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome home on foreign policy a defense of his unilateral decisions to pull troops out of syria the claim that he's averted a major war with north korea announcing another summit with the north korean leader will take place in vietnam at the end of this month and despite calling for unity from picking on an issue that is highly divisive to defend the dignity of every person i am asking congress to pass legislation to prohibit the

late term abortion. by the be. an example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of division. this is a point brought up in the opposition response given by the democratic party's rising star stacey abrahams the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandon not just our people but our values the one moment of real unity came when president trump left his prepared script we also have more women serving in congress then at any time if you will republicans and democrats alike burst into applause but the vast majority of women are on the democratic side in terms of gender and race it's the most diverse

democratic party caucus in congress tional history and despite a writ of bipartisan moment it would appear this side of the house were a main intent on fighting the president every step of the way my kind of al-jazeera washington. well donald trump speech also addressed the trade dispute with china he warned the first of us jobs and wealth must come to an end the world's two biggest economies have been at odds over trade imposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each other's products. from beijing. so once more president donald trump has taken aim at china but these are comments accusations that china's leaders have heard before particularly donald trump's claim that china is stealing u.s. jobs and that u.s. tough negotiating is making it harder for china to continue to do that president donald trump also spoke about his renewed call for china to make structural reforms

to its industrial policy their president from is referring to the system whereby the chinese state continues to give huge subsidies to state owned companies that are involved in technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence robotics and five g. the united states is saying that those heavy subsidies make it very hard for u.s. companies to compete that there's no level playing field this is all happening as the united states has confirmed that robert light hisor the chief u.s. trade representative and steve minucci and the u.s. trade secretary are returning to beijing next week to resume trade negotiations because according to an administration official china has agreed to start talking about things that intel now have been off the agenda that could mean that china is now prepared to discuss possible reforms to its industrial policy. well as we

mentioned earlier the groundwork is being laid for a second meeting between the leaders of the us and north korea the two day meeting in vietnam will begin on february twenty seventh robin broke reporter from seoul. after their first historic meeting in singapore last june all now looks set for round two in vietnam it's a neutral choice acceptable to both sides. it's also symbolically important as a former enemy of the us that now enjoys normalized relations and economic prosperity a possible path for north korea to follow since singapore negotiations have stalled but both leaders seem determined to meet again. march work remains to be done but my relationship with kim jong un is a good one chairman kim and i were me again on february twenty seventh

and twenty eighth in vietnam negotiators from both sides have been meeting knowing the next summit will have to produce something of substance following criticism that singapore was little more than a photo opportunity it probably won't be anything big maybe the decommissioning of some nuclear facilities under international monitoring in return for the security guarantees that north korea craves and just possibly some relief from sanctions after the stalemate of the past half year anything that moves the process forward will counter success even partial being a collision or freezing it's a better then or to having nothing to go waiting for ever for north korea to agree on completely which is almost impossible for the totalitarian regime whether this process is moving towards full denuclearization the more immediate need for trump and kim seems to be maintaining the narrative that it is bright

al-jazeera soul. venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on its border with colombia the president won has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials tourism has more now from the capital caracas. employee said this maternity hospital in the capital caracas say they are in desperate need of aid they say their hospital urgently needs basic medicines and medical equipment they say the venezuelan government shouldn't get in the way of international aid entering the country. only. this hospital had the best doctors the base nurses the best of everything and now we are seeing a complete deterioration with shortages of medicine food for patients and cleaning products the self declared interim president why though says the presidency of

nicola is illegitimate he's pushing for legislation in the opposition controlled national assembly to be passed to remove the roadblocks on humanitarian aid members of the national assembly say that they would like to create a humanitarian corridor composed of ngo's religious groups and doctors that will allow the aid to reach those who need it the most but it won't be easy because the government says that the humanitarian aid is a political show by the opposition that will allow the united states to intervene in the country where. he's in charge of coordinating the push for aid in the national assembly he says is wrong. though it is not only the united states that is an evolved it is the leymah group that meeting canada nobody can say justin trudeau is the extreme right or pedro cinches and spain i want to see the message to the world venus why this constitutional order is broken we won legislative elections and i took our wife from us we asked for

a referendum and they did not want it they do not want to get out of power what we are offering is not. the liberation army just the ability to choose their future and a new election in the same building but in another room met their rival constituent assembly a legislative body created by the government to years ago to redraft the constitution now it is proposing to call for legislative elections to replace the opposition controlled by a man whose mandate expires next year i you know he said. the opposition wants elections so we could call for legislative elections because parliament is controlled by the extreme right at that stage in a coup they are the only power that has not been revalidated recently. and that sentiment was shared by supporters of. who surrounded the national assembly building during the session but. if one way the once the chair then you can buy it at the store because here no one would allow him to sit on the presidential seat

a political crisis where nobody really knows how or when it is going to end. the united nations says is push for an agreement between yemen's government on the hoof the rebels is beginning to pay off it says days of talks between the warring parties are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the city of data the port is crucial for getting food and aid into the country the newly appointed head of the un's mission to monitor a truce agreement michael god has arrived in yemen he is facilitating further negotiations on board a ship in the red sea. the u.s. central command in the middle east is calling for an investigation into allegations american weapons are making their way into yemen general vote or raise the concerns to a senate committee a recent media report alleges weapons provided by the u.s. to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. were being transferred to al qaeda linked fighters inside yemen

a saudi coalition is currently fighting the yemeni hoofy rebels. we have not authorize saudi arabia or the emirates to transfer any of this equipment to other parties on the ground in in yemen and is as you are well aware when we do provide equipment whether comes government to government or commercially provided. that the recipients do have to agree to certain it's stipulations on the use of those still to come here on al-jazeera have a group of doctors in syria is trying to make up for the shortfall in desperately required medical care. will tell you why the philippines needlessly majority were told this region is getting a chance to expand. hello

again it's good to have you back well things are looking quite nice here across the northern part of south asia we're talking about the philippines and vietnam as well as into thailand not a lot here on the forecast map temperatures are hovering anywhere between the low thirty's to the mid forty's in some locations holcim in city we're going to be seeing about thirty four degrees and sunny skies in your forecast really keeping the same as we go towards friday but still a lot of rain down here across much of indonesia over the next few days well across parts of australia is some good news and that's coming in the next few days all of the rain here in queensland where we're finally starting to see a trend of it making its way more towards the east into the coral sea so some of the areas that seen some very heavy rain the water is beginning to recede right now and the good news is we do think that trend is going to continue so here in queensland notice to the north we are seeing cloudy conditions but most of the heavy rain will remain down here to the south as well as the southeast down here across parts of melbourne though we are going to be seeing your heat is going to

start subside as we go towards friday we did see some very heavy rain as that front push through so thirty degrees dropping down to about twenty one degrees there up towards brisbane it is going to be a rainy day for you at thirty one and over here towards perth the heat is still on with attempt a few of about thirty seven degrees. rewind returns i can bring your people back to live from start with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in liberal i was the pope of the clerks and no i like any other student rewind continues josephs journey this is. the struggle continues book. from baghdad. till now. it's rewind on al-jazeera.

welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha these are the top stories this hour the u.s. president donald trump has called for political unity in his state of the union address in a wide ranging speech he told republicans and democrats they must join forces to confront what he called a security crisis on the border with mexico. as trump also confirmed a second summit with the north korean leader at the end of this month this time in vietnam today meeting with kim jong il and beginning on february twenty seventh aims to build on denuclearization talks started in singapore last june. one of the story venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia the salt president on the border has appealed

to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials. iraq's prime minister said back at one of us president trump's comments about using a military base in his country donald trump recently said a u.s. facility in iraq would be used to keep an eye on neighboring iran but. he says no such american base exists. we disagree with what the americans said there are no american military bases in iraq we have said that several times there are military trainers within the framework of an international coalition whose main task is to train the iraqi forces and fight against. the un has warned of dire consequences of more isn't done to protect children in iraq unicef says the harsh winter could be fatal for some of the one hundred fifty thousand children in displacement camps there it's also calling for more money to be spent on education. is in fact at. some of

these children may not live through the plunging temperatures of iraq's winter. the un's children's agency is warning that those already weakened by hypothermia and disease after severe flooding in november might not survive the home's cold. we need a lot to be done health is the lifeline of our society but we're not seeing much happening people organize rallies but our calls are falling on deaf ears unicef says iraq spends just under six percent of its annual budget on education even though many young children are determined to go to school. a little schools open across the city of mosul our school is one of several which have more than six hundred students we can barely cope with unicef says there have been big improvements when it comes to health care for children it says that less than one percent of children die in childbirth and that's because eighty five percent are

now how can in hospitals it also says that one thousand true fans of the iraqis children like these children at this kindergarten in baghdad are likely to go into primary school but he says that number drops significantly when they get to secondary school the state of security in areas which have been badly affected by called. according to unicef an areas such as the northern province of nineveh province to the south only one child in every form goes to secondary school instead many have to work to help support their families there must've challenges i mean. it's the situation continues as it is today in iraq the children of the future will have very little future how are you going to play today so they have a future for tomorrow how are you going to invest in them so they can aspire for a future a future that they are part of the government has set up

a three hundred million dollars fund to help the poorest people in their. is hardest hit by conflict but unicef insists more needs to be done to stop children like these becoming iraq's last generation rob matheson al-jazeera back to. homeowners in the flooded city of tons fill in australia hoping the worst is over but weather forecasters say more monsoon rain could be on the way following the record breaking deluge a few days ago queenslanders returning to their ruined homes have been speaking to our correspondent andrew thomas this is what you see in front of houses all over townsville now the floodwaters have largely gone down but anything that people weren't able to get out of their house in time things like fresh razors well they're ruined they're there waiting to be picked up as rubbish well this house belongs to kevin martin. you've been clearing up your place all day kevin help it so i can see everything on the ground was really how high was the water in here probably are from right around man. i came up pretty quickly and it didn't come up

with out things in it that there was. spiders you know i meant it came with it you saw us night i did i was eight o'clock and i was at a small lot and a different relation when it disappeared so as you're clearing out if you were watching which come with you i was fairly left and out there i don't know whether it's always a man or a python and i know you were able to get sentimental items and electronics you know it was very nice rifle it's just finely any think it was only grain yeah right trade and a whole idea is just you know what you are you really swelling up and just gaining and i think the clearing bedrooms that you have to carry mattresses you ripping up the carpets i guess you need to dry out everything before you even start thinking about replacing but you aren't sure yes or yeah well good luck good luck with the cleanup this is a situation being repeated all over townsville on the wednesday the worst of the rain. has moved south but still waits and there's

a lot of cleaning up today. the prime minister to resume a jew in brussels on thursday for more bricks it talks especially about the so-called backstop missy's may has been in northern ireland to emphasize she is committed to preventing a hard border with the republic of ireland south of the border paul brennan reports from belfast. northern ireland has the u.k.'s only land border with the european union and the businesses of this province of feeling the uncertainty of a more acute the most threesome a promise an unshakable commitment to avoiding a hard border northern ireland does not have to rely on the irish government or the european union to prevent a return to borders of the past the u.k. government will not let that happen i will not let that happen to resubmit the speech offered reassurances that the business leaders here found it less than

reassuring and there were no new specifics about what alternative arrangements might be found to the northern ireland backstop. the biggest fear is a no deal that we cannot sleep walk and situation so and our best guess is across the u.k. are not prepared for a new deal situation so i don't think anyone can really prepare it's very difficult to prepare for what would a new deal look like if it doesn't work then we have to go back and i want to students to you know what what is going to work and what is a compromise solution and they've all committed and everybody doesn't want to see a border crack in northern ireland so they have to come up with that solution if if her efforts in europe don't succeed this week if there is a hard border but you're talking about at the systematic dust and aggression of a supply that has been built up not over twenty years of peace but over forty years of membership of the. three say will go to brussels later this week determined to avoid a hard border the e.u. has the same determination but each has very different ideas on how to guarantee

that outcome all bran and al-jazeera belfast. rival factions from the central african republic are due to formally sign a peace deal to end six years of fighting an agreement between the ca government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un negotiations in sudan c.a.r. descended into turmoil when fighting broke out between muslim and christian militias in twenty four teen thousands of people have been killed and millions more have been displaced. hospitals in rebel held areas of northern syria. international help because. of control. of this. body to provide. to millions of syrians. from the turkey syria border. with. emergency

responders follow similar protocols everywhere. a little girl with a head injury needs to be transported to a hospital she needs an m.r.i. scan the setting only begins to look out of the ordinary when you notice the makeshift blast proof examination room medics say they never know when an airstrike or artillery shell could target them this hospital isn't it the city the new home to millions of syrians displaced by the war it's run by the director of a rare example of an operational institution in a rebel held area its director says they were ridiculed for even attempting to oversee the help needs of a whole province. what makes the directorate special is that it's observing two hundred medical centers and thirty three facilities directly if it wasn't essential projects will collapse like vaccination centers for four hundred seventy two thousand children but the war in its eighth year money from international donors is

running out. without funding we cannot continue we need. all of the employees have homes and children they cannot volunteer for more than two or three months. many international organizations. or each of the largest group which controls most of the city it's linked to either and used to be known as a list of front. the help directorate says it's been able to fight off h.t.s. as interference. and we said if you interfere one more time we will close it. and within a span of two hours this is ok fine fine of backing off because if we suspend the people will turn against them we want to give medicine box nation we want to treat patients who are prisoners and we want to do it away from politics. the director also runs a pharmaceutical controlled potman to detect drugs and says ten million doses of medicines have been checked in the last two years to follow european and american

drug standards doctors say the checks are essential and not just for syrians and remember disease crosses borders diseases do not understand checkpoints if. case isn't. a threat for everyone in the world we are the frontline fighting all these diseases diseases and we are ready to continue doing that and we believe that our donors will not just abandon us because of lack of funding people in the are being asked to pay for health services many of them are refugees in their own country and can't even afford to pay for two meals a day people in advance are hoping for a political settlement so aid agencies can resume humanitarian aid for them some of the job made out of their. new autonomous region in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribes votes on whether to join it but they want to make sure the rulers of the muslim majority territory their ancestral lands

to them here's jim for the many bush can. call them invoking the spirits of their ancestors the tedder i say they are grateful the hope peace has come to their land to see more than a hundred thousand of them voted to accept and autonomy us government designed to provide greater powers for muslims in mindanao. christian and indigenous communities like the to dry are also included in the new south rule region after decades of fighting leaders of the separatist rebel group the more islamic liberation front negotiated for almost twenty years with several administrations in the capital manila yes more than a hundred thousand filipinos have been killed and millions more display. based since the rebellion for mushroom rule began in the one nine hundred sixty s. it's very important that the it relates to be sistering that when the law consol

people especially those who are most affected by what is going to be which means advancing more people will feel that yes this is the right call set that unless this is the right term when a shell of what we have fought for and that this is the ground from which to begin our i mean future some of the to the rise and says she lands are occupied by the more islamic liberation front and the philippine military they say they are prepared to fight for their rights despite being one of the most in battle tribes in the country. but we have a saying just like a crab it is being pursued inside its whole we may feel powerless sometimes but the crab has claws you see and even with small claws we can fight back. like so many indigenous tribes in mindanao the tiger rice have been fighting for their ancestral land for decades this is why they say they are always been supportive of

this peace process and their expectations are high that under this new political autonomy they will finally be properly represented some referred to the to dry as a minority and long minorities. they are counting on the government's promise that under this new autonomy the land of their ancestors will be returned to their. dog and al-jazeera mugging down the province southern philippines. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. president donald trump has called for political unity in his state of the union address to congress he touched on the economy trade immigration uncalled for. cooperation from both parties to confront what he's calling a security crisis on the border with mexico. i stand here ready to work with you

to achieve historic breakthroughs for all americans millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now gathered in this great chamber hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one nation with. mr trump also confirmed a second summit with the north korean leader at the end of this month this time in vietnam today meeting with kim jong un beginning on friday the twenty seventh aims to build on denuclearization talks which started in singapore venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia self declared president. has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials. of the u.s. central command in the middle east is calling for an investigation into allegations american weapons are making their way into yemen general joseph votes will raise

the concerns to a senate committee a recent media report alleges weapons provided by the u.s. to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are being transferred to fighters in yemen the u.n. says it's pushed for an agreement between the government of yemen and the who see rebels is beginning to pay off as days of talks between the warring sides are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the port city of who data. rival factions from the central african republic are due to formally sign a peace deal to end six years of fighting an agreement between the ca r.'s government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in sudan the c.a.r. descended into turmoil when fighting broke out between muslim and christian militias in twenty first team those are your headlines up next it's earthrise i will see you very soon bye bye for now.

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